Switzerland is free to trade with it's neighbors and make arrangements for open (or closed) borders between them as it sees fit. Is Gaza in the same position?
According to your logic, that the natives are fighting back is all the more reason to continue dispossession, colonization, and annexation. There's a reason why such practices are forbidden by the UN Charter and 4th Geneva Convention: they amount to ethnic cleansing.
I searched pretty heavily for evidence of Hamas forcing people to be human shields but couldn't find any. However, I did find recordings of the Hamas operated television station in Gaza calling for people to rush to a house to protect it. Even the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms this. Certainly, if Israel had evidence of forced human shields it would be eagerly showing it to everyone but all of the evidence on that page is calls for people to voluntarily be human shields.
Hamas stopped firing rockets but there are still other groups operating in Gaza that Hamas has been unable to control. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, exlpains "a variety of independent militia groups operate in Gaza, some such as the Fatah-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade are anti-Hamas, and may even be sending rockets to provoke or justify Israeli retaliation. It is well confirmed that when US-supported Fatah controlled Gaza's governing structure it was unable to stop rocket attacks despite a concerted effort to do so."
"Non-violent response" like mothers with babies in arms standing in the way death machines so they are forced to mow down innocent people? The Palestinians are doing that as well and are being demonized for using human shields.
Thanks, and Israel is denying the Palestinians their right to self determination.
American land was stolen in less enlightened times. Stolen prior to the establishment of the League of Nations / UN, prior to the Hague and Geneva Conventions, prior to WWII, and prior to the introduction of nuclear weapons. The defenders of Israel, China, and other states attempting to acquire territory by force in modern times would like us to return to a time of lawlessness. A time when acquiring territory by force was acceptable, as was slavery.
No sir. Israel abandoned their colonies but they still occupy Gaza. That's what gives them power to deny Gaza any trade whatsoever and invade whenever they wish. You can't enter or leave Gaza without permission from Israel. Israel even denies Gazan firshermen the ability to fish in Gazan or International waters. So long as the government in Gaza has no control over it's borders or other functions of a soverign state, it's occupied by Israel.
In fact, Israel has been careful to say that they have simply "disengaged." It's a "disengagement" plan. Gaza is disengaged but occupied. You have to admit, "disengagement" is the true genius in Sharon's legacy.
Israel provides them with fuel, water, and electricity (deliberately not enough, though Dov Weisglass insists Israel isn't starving them, merely putting them on a diet) because Israel is obligated to as the occupying power. Even though Israel abandoned their colonies in Gaza they are still occupying it. Is that what you mean by no involvement?
Israel still attacks Gaza, as evidenced by the raid on Nov. 4th that broke the cease fire.
The craziest thing is people countenance the intentional withholding of necessary fuel, water, and electricity from 1.5 million of the poorest people on earth, half children.
So the occupation, colonization, and annexation aren't violent? There's a reason why colonizing land you occupy is forbidden by the 4th Geneva convention, it's because it amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Would it kill the Egyptians to open the Gaza gate and let some aid and supplies through? Well no, it wouldn't, but it might cost them some favours from the US government.
As Egypt has consistently pointed out, Gaza is occupied by Israel so it's up to Israel whether the border is opened. Ignoring Israel would jeopardize the peace they have found with them.
States don't have rights, only persons have rights. Instead, States have powers that they justly derive from the people. States also exist or not at the whims of the people. Sometimes the people have a revolution, found a new state and the old state is wiped off the map.
Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza, they can do it in the West Bank. The settlements would be good partial reparation to the Palestinians. It's not like Israel and the colonists didn't know that what they were doing was illegal and wrong.
Otherwise, I'm right with you on the one state solution. Don't forget a constitution that's the supreme law of the land (along with treaties) that guarantees equal rights for all persons.
If by "Israeli's just want to get on with their lives" you mean "Israel just wants to continue the decades long program to annex the desirable parts of Palestinian land without the non-Jews" then you're totally right.
The largest user of Darcs, GHC, just stitched to git because of serious merge/conflict issues, bugs, and performance problems. They have posted an evaluation of their situation.
OpenOffice is where it is not because it's a great project that inspired people to join the development effort. It's here because Sun was desperate for a major desktop app they could promote as being written in Java. So Sun pumped a lot of money into what was a commercial project that was destined to fail. Many people were grateful for a free office suite but there is competition now from SAAS that don't require downloading bloated software packages and runtimes in addition to the old brand name solutions.
Without continuous care and feeding by Sun or a similarly capitalized organization (like one or more states that are adopting linux) the project is going to fizzle.
Except after two months you still can't get the dual link dvi adapters. Those with 30" monitors were already pretty peeved that they haven't been able to use them. Now you have to buy a useless $30 attachment or go to the Apple store to fix your mac after a firmware bug. No thanks.
Some important changes had to be made to support the developers of Duke Nukem Forever, who are rewriting the project from scratch in Perl 6. The good news is that means Perl 6 is right around the corner!
Use perl instead of python when you have a lot of necessary code/modules already written in perl instead of python. Unless you like spending time writing code when you don't have to.
The author of this article could have called or emailed Bram Cohen before writing this article, but then he wouldn't have had such sensational tripe to garner page views. If he had, he would have known that he has got it completely wrong. The switch to uTP is actually to make BitTorrent traffic more friendly to Internet traffic. You see, BitTorrent is trying to sell a content delivery service based on their client and the #1 complaint from their customers (businesses with content to deliver) and their customer's customers (end users) is that the BitTorrent DNA client seeding/downloading in the background hurts the performance of other applications. That's unacceptable if you're trying to sell an unobtrusive alternative/complement to traditional CDN.
Yup, good ol TCP is what is causing the problem. That's because BitTorrent breaks the assumption in TCP that one application needs only one TCP stream to do its work. To solve the problem BitTorrent acquired advanced congestion control techonology and it's inventors from "Plicto." The congestion control technology lets BitTorrent work without causing crazy latency for other applications on the box. BitTorrent is the responsible party here, recognizing the need for congestion control and implementing it in their protocol. Compare that to the author of this article who saw that BT was using UDP and assumed it was a naive attempt to get around ISP blocks.
The people who work at BitTorrent are smart enough to know that you can't beat your ISP by making a new protocol. The ISP sees all and can control all, even if it may lag behind the changes. That's why BitTorrent has been working to make changes where it can make a lasting difference, in the political layer of the network.
Generally blocking ports or protocols as a preventative measure doesn't count as "selection of the material by the service provider." Indeed, once you do have "actual knowledge" of infringement or are "aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent" then the DMCA requires you to act "expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material" or you lose the protection from liability. 17 USC 512(c)(1)
If Israel can get away with annexing Jerusalem and the best parts of the West Bank then why on earth do you think the UK couldn't annex an artificial, rusting WWII gun platform that nobody cares about?
Despite all the pretense to "international law" the fact of the matter is that "might makes right." The mighty, which includes the UK, accept and apply international law when suits them and ignore it when it doesn't.
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Switzerland is free to trade with it's neighbors and make arrangements for open (or closed) borders between them as it sees fit. Is Gaza in the same position?
According to your logic, that the natives are fighting back is all the more reason to continue dispossession, colonization, and annexation. There's a reason why such practices are forbidden by the UN Charter and 4th Geneva Convention: they amount to ethnic cleansing.
I searched pretty heavily for evidence of Hamas forcing people to be human shields but couldn't find any. However, I did find recordings of the Hamas operated television station in Gaza calling for people to rush to a house to protect it. Even the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms this. Certainly, if Israel had evidence of forced human shields it would be eagerly showing it to everyone but all of the evidence on that page is calls for people to voluntarily be human shields.
According to data supplied by the Israeli Consulate in NYC, rocket and mortar fire all but completely stopped during the ceasefire then jumped back after it ended.
Hamas stopped firing rockets but there are still other groups operating in Gaza that Hamas has been unable to control. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, exlpains "a variety of independent militia groups operate in Gaza, some such as the Fatah-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade are anti-Hamas, and may even be sending rockets to provoke or justify Israeli retaliation. It is well confirmed that when US-supported Fatah controlled Gaza's governing structure it was unable to stop rocket attacks despite a concerted effort to do so."
"Non-violent response" like mothers with babies in arms standing in the way death machines so they are forced to mow down innocent people? The Palestinians are doing that as well and are being demonized for using human shields.
Thanks, and Israel is denying the Palestinians their right to self determination.
American land was stolen in less enlightened times. Stolen prior to the establishment of the League of Nations / UN, prior to the Hague and Geneva Conventions, prior to WWII, and prior to the introduction of nuclear weapons. The defenders of Israel, China, and other states attempting to acquire territory by force in modern times would like us to return to a time of lawlessness. A time when acquiring territory by force was acceptable, as was slavery.
No sir. Israel abandoned their colonies but they still occupy Gaza. That's what gives them power to deny Gaza any trade whatsoever and invade whenever they wish. You can't enter or leave Gaza without permission from Israel. Israel even denies Gazan firshermen the ability to fish in Gazan or International waters. So long as the government in Gaza has no control over it's borders or other functions of a soverign state, it's occupied by Israel.
In fact, Israel has been careful to say that they have simply "disengaged." It's a "disengagement" plan. Gaza is disengaged but occupied. You have to admit, "disengagement" is the true genius in Sharon's legacy.
Israel provides them with fuel, water, and electricity (deliberately not enough, though Dov Weisglass insists Israel isn't starving them, merely putting them on a diet) because Israel is obligated to as the occupying power. Even though Israel abandoned their colonies in Gaza they are still occupying it. Is that what you mean by no involvement?
Israel still attacks Gaza, as evidenced by the raid on Nov. 4th that broke the cease fire.
The craziest thing is people countenance the intentional withholding of necessary fuel, water, and electricity from 1.5 million of the poorest people on earth, half children.
So the occupation, colonization, and annexation aren't violent? There's a reason why colonizing land you occupy is forbidden by the 4th Geneva convention, it's because it amounts to ethnic cleansing.
As Egypt has consistently pointed out, Gaza is occupied by Israel so it's up to Israel whether the border is opened. Ignoring Israel would jeopardize the peace they have found with them.
States don't have rights, only persons have rights. Instead, States have powers that they justly derive from the people. States also exist or not at the whims of the people. Sometimes the people have a revolution, found a new state and the old state is wiped off the map.
Did Apartheid South Africa have a right to exist?
Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza, they can do it in the West Bank. The settlements would be good partial reparation to the Palestinians. It's not like Israel and the colonists didn't know that what they were doing was illegal and wrong.
Otherwise, I'm right with you on the one state solution. Don't forget a constitution that's the supreme law of the land (along with treaties) that guarantees equal rights for all persons.
If by "Israeli's just want to get on with their lives" you mean "Israel just wants to continue the decades long program to annex the desirable parts of Palestinian land without the non-Jews" then you're totally right.
The largest user of Darcs, GHC, just stitched to git because of serious merge/conflict issues, bugs, and performance problems. They have posted an evaluation of their situation.
Why waste battery power with lots of extra junk that is hardly ever used?
OpenOffice is where it is not because it's a great project that inspired people to join the development effort. It's here because Sun was desperate for a major desktop app they could promote as being written in Java. So Sun pumped a lot of money into what was a commercial project that was destined to fail. Many people were grateful for a free office suite but there is competition now from SAAS that don't require downloading bloated software packages and runtimes in addition to the old brand name solutions.
Without continuous care and feeding by Sun or a similarly capitalized organization (like one or more states that are adopting linux) the project is going to fizzle.
Except after two months you still can't get the dual link dvi adapters. Those with 30" monitors were already pretty peeved that they haven't been able to use them. Now you have to buy a useless $30 attachment or go to the Apple store to fix your mac after a firmware bug. No thanks.
Some important changes had to be made to support the developers of Duke Nukem Forever, who are rewriting the project from scratch in Perl 6. The good news is that means Perl 6 is right around the corner!
Use perl instead of python when you have a lot of necessary code/modules already written in perl instead of python. Unless you like spending time writing code when you don't have to.
That would be OSI Layer 8.
The author of this article could have called or emailed Bram Cohen before writing this article, but then he wouldn't have had such sensational tripe to garner page views. If he had, he would have known that he has got it completely wrong. The switch to uTP is actually to make BitTorrent traffic more friendly to Internet traffic. You see, BitTorrent is trying to sell a content delivery service based on their client and the #1 complaint from their customers (businesses with content to deliver) and their customer's customers (end users) is that the BitTorrent DNA client seeding/downloading in the background hurts the performance of other applications. That's unacceptable if you're trying to sell an unobtrusive alternative/complement to traditional CDN.
Yup, good ol TCP is what is causing the problem. That's because BitTorrent breaks the assumption in TCP that one application needs only one TCP stream to do its work. To solve the problem BitTorrent acquired advanced congestion control techonology and it's inventors from "Plicto." The congestion control technology lets BitTorrent work without causing crazy latency for other applications on the box. BitTorrent is the responsible party here, recognizing the need for congestion control and implementing it in their protocol. Compare that to the author of this article who saw that BT was using UDP and assumed it was a naive attempt to get around ISP blocks.
The people who work at BitTorrent are smart enough to know that you can't beat your ISP by making a new protocol. The ISP sees all and can control all, even if it may lag behind the changes. That's why BitTorrent has been working to make changes where it can make a lasting difference, in the political layer of the network.
Generally blocking ports or protocols as a preventative measure doesn't count as "selection of the material by the service provider." Indeed, once you do have "actual knowledge" of infringement or are "aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent" then the DMCA requires you to act "expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material" or you lose the protection from liability. 17 USC 512(c)(1)
If Israel can get away with annexing Jerusalem and the best parts of the West Bank then why on earth do you think the UK couldn't annex an artificial, rusting WWII gun platform that nobody cares about?
Despite all the pretense to "international law" the fact of the matter is that "might makes right." The mighty, which includes the UK, accept and apply international law when suits them and ignore it when it doesn't.
Are you suggesting that California Labor Code 2870(a)(1) does not apply to a work of authorship such as a C++ compiler?